Douglas Tompkins Quotes

National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.

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• Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

  

  Oren Peli
  • World
  • Friends
  • Doing

• I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Going
  • Been
  • Where

• Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Teach
  • Group

• An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Great
  • True

• Your belief system saturates the space around you.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • You
  • Space
  • Belief

• Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Down

• I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Love
  • Science

• I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Men
  • Black
  • Media

• I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Women
  • Strong

• There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Doubt

• I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Teacher
  • Politics
  • Massage

• Like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children
  • Giving

• The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Mind
  • Crying

• My wind is turned to bitter north,That was so soft a south before;My sky, that shone so sunny bright,With foggy gloom is clouded o’erMy gay green leaves are yellow-black,Upon the dank autumnal floor;For love, departed once, comes backNo more again, no more.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Black
  • Gay
  • Wind

• I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Real
  • Opportunity

• We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking for suffering, but for joy. God, living in joy, wanted to communicate it to all people. This is why he sent it down into our misery, nailing it to the cross. At that point, the cross became the way toward joy. Christianity is not at all morality and prohibitions - first and foremost it is wonder before things.

  

  Fabrice Hadjadj
  • Wonder
  • Christianity
  • Communicate

• Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

  

  Jane D. Hull
  • Up
  • America
  • City

• The thing about 'Harry Potter' is it's great fun because of the people - I was usually with Julie Walters and Mark Williams, Brendan Gleeson, Robbie Coltrane, and the kids. Wonderful, funny, amazing people. If you're going to hang around on a set bored, you might as well do it with Julie Walters.

  

  David Thewlis
  • People
  • Great
  • Kids

• Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • Black

• At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.

  

  Delta Burke
  • Up

• National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.

  

  Douglas Tompkins